SEQUELS: Forgiving Neighbor

In February 1945, as the U.S. Sixth and
Eighth Armies closed in on Manila from north, east and south, the
Japanese garrison went berserk, killing 40,000 Filipinos in a 20-day
orgy. Among those machine-gunned to death in the streets: the wife and
three of the children of the man who is now President of the Philippine
Republic, Elpidio Quirino. After the war, the Philippine government
condemned 79 Japanese to death and 48 more to long prison terms, for
these and hundreds of other atrocities. Charged with "command
responsibility" for the rape of...